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After All These Years
by Susan Isaacs
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harpercollins (1993-07)
ISBN: 0060167688
EAN: 9780060167684
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Hardcover: 400 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 04210
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: First edition book, book in great condition
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Soon after her wealthy husband of twenty-five years leaves her for a younger woman, Rosie Meyers finds herself the prime suspect in his murder and goes underground as a fugitive in Manhattan to find the killer. 150,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.
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Customer Reviews
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Book-review
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-10-08
Book was as represented and arrived within an appropriate length of time. Would buy from this seller again.
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boring
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-09-24
1 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Rich people misbehaving on Long Island. Who cares? Could have been written by Dominick Dunne, although he would have done a better job of it. Susan Isaacs does turn a nice phrase now and then, but the emphasis on wealth, which is mentioned in one way or another on nearly every page, is shallow and boring. I struggled through about half the book and then skipped to the end to see the outcome.
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Murder in Suburbia!
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-08-09
Susan Isaacs does a wonderful job in 'After All These Years'.
Shortly after her anniversary celebration, Rosie Meyers finds herself alone after her husband leaves her for another(much younger) woman. Spending another evening alone, she decides to binge on junk food. But she soon loses her appetite when she finds her soon-to-be-ex-husband dead in the house. And the prime suspect? Rosie.
The book follow Rosie around, as she narrates in a want-to-be-private-eye style(caused by to many mystery books and old private-eye movies), trying to find the REAL killer behind her husbands murder. Can she find a way to clear her name and get her life back together? Or is she doomed to a life behind bars? Read the book to find out!
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A Good Story with Bits of Humor
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-10-02
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This was a good book. I didn't expect to read the greatest book I'd ever read; what I'd expected was a story gripping enough to make me turn away from the computer and just want to read. That's what I got out of "After All These Years," which I think to be a terrible title for what is, really, quite a fun read.
"After All These Years" is based around solving the crime that middle-aged English teacher (but extremely wealthy by marriage) Rosie Meyers stands accused. I love a good murder mystery, and this one held my interest, despite the fact that stories surrounded by disgusting amounts of wealth ordinarily make me cringe. However, Rosie was a down-to-earth yet fallible woman, who mostly held true to the character Ms. Isaacs had created for her (a small flaw being that Rosie was a little too sexually promiscuous to me, considering how she acted in all other situations).
I figured out who had done it about three-quarters of the way through the story...and I'm not the world's best sleuth. So mystery fans may be disappointed by the easy answer. However, there were lots of twists and turns in this story that kept me turning pages right up until the end.
In comparing "After All These Years" to the other Susan Isaacs story I have read -- "Lily White" -- I liked "After All These Years" better. "Lily White" was an intriguing book, but based less on mystery and more a character study. Also, "Lily White" danced between first- and third-person narratives, which became confusing at most and took a lot of my concentration to follow at least. "After All These Years," on the other hand, was told completely from Rosie's point-of-view and in chronological order.
Plus...who wouldn't want to be in (or out) of Rosie's shoes as she, a middle-aged English teacher, scampers about New York on the run from the law, evading the cops and manipulating the enemy into handing over information. She'll clear her own name and lament over her jerk of an ex-husband, then play footsies with men half her age, all in the same day. For me, this was quite an escape into a world I am not (or hope not to be) a part.
And once in a while, Rosie will make you smile, if she doesn't make you laugh out loud. Recommended "beach" reading.
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Quick and fun
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-05-27
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I picked up this book after reading "Compromising Positions" and its sequel, "Long Time No See". "Long Time No See" was written 20 years after "Compromising Positions", and "After All These Years" was written between these two novels. I have concluded that Isaacs continues to improve with age. This book was better than "Compromising Positions", but not quite at the level of "Long Time No See."There's plenty to enjoy in this novel. Isaacs has such a pleasant style and is so clever, this book will keep you laughing throughout. Plus, you have to love a heroine who, after, being dumped by her adulterous husband, manages to solve the mystery surrounding his murder plus makes time to enjoy not one, but two, affairs while on the lamb. The characters are well-crafted and entertaining. Isaacs does not hesitate to allow the main character to poke fun at herself either. Plus, it is fun to find out the secret life her husband has been leading ever since they struck it rich. The only detractor was that I figured out "who done it" very early on. So, to me, the ultimate solving of the crime was definitely not the highlight of the story. I read this thick book over a weekend, while in the car on a long trip. It was thoroughly entertaining, and made me promptly go out and purchase another Isaacs novel--"Lily White". Even when I do solve the mystery sooner than the protagonist, Isaacs keeps me laughing, and I'm always anxious to read some more.
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